EXPLORING GESUALDO with Bruce Adolphe and Glenn Watkins Wednesday Evening, April 3, 2013 at 6:30
about tonight’s
SPEAKERS
Composer Bruce Adolphe has written music for many renowned musicians and ensembles, including Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Sylvia McNair, the Brentano String Quartet, the Beaux Arts Trio, and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. His opera Let Freedom Sing: The Story of Marian Anderson, with a libretto by Carolivia Herron, was premiered in 2009 by the Washington National Opera, which performed it again in March 2011. His Self Comes to Mind, written with neuroscientist Antonio Damasio, premiered at the American Museum of Natural History in 2009, featuring Yo-Yo Ma. Of Art and Onions: Homage to Bronzino, which he composed for the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, was premiered in 2010 at the Met Museum and received its European premiere at the Teatro Goldoni in Florence. His Reach Out, Raise Hope, Change Society for chorus and chamber ensemble—a work about civil rights and social justice commissioned for the 90th anniversary of the University of Michigan’s School of Social Work— premiered in November 2011. A new music festival in Colorado, Off the Hook, invited Bruce Adolphe to be composer-in-residence for its inaugural season in 2012 and has invited him to return in that position for 2013. Mr. Adolphe’s Coyote Scatters the Stars (a musical tale of order and chaos) was featured on 12/12/12 at the opening ceremony of MoMath in New York, the only museum of mathematics in the US. In addition to composing, he holds several positions concurrently: founder and director of the Meet the Music! family concert series and resident lecturer at The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; keyboard quiz-master on public radio’s weekly Piano Puzzler on Performance Today; and founder and creative director of The Learning Maestros. The author of three books on music, Mr. Adolphe has taught at Yale, The Juilliard School, and New York University, and was recently appointed composer-in-residence and adviser in music research at the Brain and Creativity Institute at USC. His book The Mind’s Ear: Exercises for Improving the Musical Imagination will be published in an expanded and revised second edition by Oxford University Press in 2013. This season, Mr. Adolphe celebrates 20 years at The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
Glenn E. Watkins is the Earl V. Moore Professor Emeritus of Music History and Musicology at the University of Michigan and a specialist in the study of Renaissance and 20th-century music. He received his B.A. (1948) and M.Mus. (1949) from the University of Michigan; and Ph.D. from the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, in 1953. As a Fulbright scholarship at London and Oxford during 195354 he retrieved the partbooks of Gesualdo’s little known Responses for Tenebrae and began to prepare a modern edition with Wilhelm Weismann between 1957 and 1962. It was during this same period that Robert Craft’s first LPs of Gesualdo’s music appeared and that Stravinsky composed the missing parts to three incomplete motets and his Monumentum pro Gesualdo (1960). International attention to Gesualdo’s music followed, culminating in an avalanche of interest among contemporary composers from 1990-2010. In addition to a Fulbright Fellowship, grants from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities followed, leading to five books: Gesualdo the Man and His Music with a Preface by Igor Stravinsky (Oxford, 1973, 2nd ed. 1990), a National Book Award finalist; Soundings: Music in the 20th Century (Schirmer Books, 1988); Pyramids at the Louvre (Harvard, 1994); Proof Through the Night: Music and the Great War (California, 2003); and The Gesualdo Hex with a Preface by Claudio Abbado (W. W. Norton, 2010), which traces not only the recognition accorded to a Renaissance prince from his own time to the early twenty-first century but places it within the context of ongoing historiographic debates and controversies. Watkins’s editions of the works of Sigismondo d’India and Carlo Gesualdo have been recorded by numerous international groups, including the Deller Consort, the Consort of Musicke, the Tallis Scholars, La Venexiana, The Kassiopeia Quintet, and Les Arts Florissants. In 2005 he was awarded the Premio Internazionale Carlo Gesualdo and was elected as an Honorary Member of the American Musicological Society.
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GESUALDO REFLECTIONS
Thursday Evening, April 4, 2013 at 7:30 ANTIOCH CHAMBER ENSEMBLE SOYEON KATE LEE, piano BRENTANO STRING QUARTET Program curated by Glenn Watkins and Bruce Adolphe. DON CARLO GESUALDO
“Ave, dulcissima Maria” for Five Voices (1603) ANTIOCH CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
(1566-1613)
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“Tu piangi, o Filli mia” from Madrigali libro sesto for Five Voices (1611) ANTIOCH CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
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“Mille volte il dì moro” from Madrigali libro sesto for Five Voices (1611) ANTIOCH CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
BRUCE ADOLPHE (b. 1955)
O Gesualdo, Divine Tormentor! for String Quartet (2004) Deh, come invan sospiro Belta, poi che t’assenti Resta di darmi noia Gia piansi nel dolore Moro lasso More or Less (a reaction to Moro Lasso) Epilogue: Momenti BRENTANO STRING QUARTET
BRETT DEAN (b. 1961)
WOLFGANG RIHM (b. 1952)
Sparge la morte for Cello, Five Voices, and Tape (1996, rev. 2006) N. LEE, ANTIOCH CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
Selections from Seven Passion Texts for Six Voices (2001-06) I. Tristis est anima mea V. Caligaverunt oculi mei ANTIOCH CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
DAVID GOMPPER (b. 1954)
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Musica Segreta for Piano, Violin, Viola, and Cello (2006) S.K. LEE, STEINBERG, AMORY, N. LEE
“‘Mercè!’ grido, piangendo” from Madrigali libro quinto for Five Voices (1611) ANTIOCH CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
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“Tristis est anima mea” for Six Voices (1611) ANTIOCH CHAMBER ENSEMBLE